Has anyone...

[Ryan]

Has anyone been caught popping for fun and practice for no other real reason? I just was by my parents. Who cares if I may never use these newly-formed characters in a piece? It still adds to my abilities and character list.

[xxLusciousZechxx]

I'm pretty sure that almost every drama participant does this, it's kind of like second nature after a while. I have a friend who did a piece where she played an old Jewish woman and she still talks like an old Jewish woman in everyday conversations... she really got into her character, and never really got out... It's crazy.

[Mexican]

when the interpers at our school are telling stories we sometimes pop. instead of saying he said she said we pop to someone new it is odd to watch.

[Cinderella]

yes! omg almost all the interpers I know do that, and its just so funny when you realize what it must look like for someone thats never seen pops before.

[lilmcd86]

how about practicing in front of a mirror? the only one that's good in my house is in the bathroom. i think my parents are jumping to conclusions as to why i'm spending so much time in there. :roll: he he!

[kellimac1234]

i think you are alone on the bathroom part, but i have practiced facial expressions in frount of a mirror.

[brdwaybabe05]

i tend to use a lot of hand gestures in almost any piece I do- its a habit i'm working very hard to break... but it all started when i joined speech, so now whenever I'm having a conversation i always use gestures, and its driving me nuts!

i know a lot of people who also talk in a constant "interp voice"

gosh... speech has changed a lot of my personality traits. LOL. jk

[kehpropg13]

I tend to fade from accent to accent and I definately end up popping in almost every conversation I engage in. It's kind of embarrasing. :-( Oh! Oh!! And I walk around making the weirdest sound effects!! It's so funny. Oh my goodness!! I'm going to go hide under my bed now.

[This is not Jenn]

I do for fun. But I am also the person who trick falls for fun. To date I have over 48 differnt accents. So there is never a dull moment with me!

[chrispac]

haha.. at UTNIF the whole interp students had a big lecture about popping in the theatre room.. we had to throw a ball as character 1 to the ground... pop into character 2 and watch the ball go up, and catch it. then AS character 2 throw the ball on the ground, pop into character 1 and watch it go up.. then catch it. and we'd do this over and over again. there were over 100 interp students in that room. it was silent. everyone was throwing invisible balls. anyone that walked in right then would think they walked into a mad house... or an LSD party.. or sumthin.

[Captainhook]

chrispac . . who are you?

i'm alex, the improse kid

[FunkyChicken]

Wheee, popping randomly is fun. Especially if you're quoting something from a movie, like I was randomly doing at art camp the other day. Thankfully, one of the counselors there used to be on my school's Speech Team, so she was there to explain to the rest of the confused camp.

[chrispac]

im one of the 3 (or 4) asian guys. the middle height one. no glasses. haha

[Histriona]

Chrispac, that is a very funny way of looking at it. Honestly, I was too busy trying to find my stupid invisible bouncy ball to think of how we looked.

You know, I've been around speech people for 10 years and I've done it for 5 and I still get a little confused once in a while when I'm about to turn a corner and I hear several different voices speaking and then see only one person.

Oh well...at least we do know how to keep things interesting!

[lilmcd86]

this is so cool having everybody on here (i.e. chrispac=chris, captainhook=alex, and histriona=catherine) UTNIF kids rock harder than everyone else! :P

[KiwiStrawberry]

At the place I work, I have to answer the phone sometimes. On several occasions I've been that close to answering in some weird character voice! And whenever I had to work the night before a tournament (standing up at the register) I would go through my piece in my head and about a minute into it I'd be semi-popping and doing the weird facial expressions...my managers probably got a laugh out of watching the security camera tapes!!! :D

[This is not Jenn]

At the place I work, I have to answer the phone sometimes. On several occasions I've been that close to answering in some weird character voice! And whenever I had to work the night before a tournament (standing up at the register) I would go through my piece in my head and about a minute into it I'd be semi-popping and doing the weird facial expressions...my managers probably got a laugh out of watching the security camera tapes!!! :D

heehee. Thats so cool.

-jenn

[evelyn]

I'll actually be going through it at school sometimes and I look like I'm having a conversation with myself and a couple of others in the hallway. I've gotten some strange looks from that, and since we have to take study hall our freshman year and I didn't have anything to do most of the time, I'd be memorizing a piece or practicing one, and people would look at me oddly for that. Once there were like 5 people just looking at me while I was doing it in my head.

[kehpropg13]

Sometimes i'll be having dinner or something with someone. they'll be talking and I'll stop listening and start running my piece. Then they tell me I'm making weird facial expressions. Yep, those would be the characters of my piece. It's so embarassing!